ECSS-E-HB-60A, SPACE ENGINEERING: CONTROL ENGINEERING HANDBOOK (14-DEC-2010)

ECSS-E-HB-60A, SPACE ENGINEERING: CONTROL ENGINEERING HANDBOOK (14-DEC-2010)., This Handbook is based on ECSS‐E‐60A Standard (2004). The technical content was kept and where necessary the formulation was adapted to comply with the drafting rules for ECSS Handbooks. Control engineering, particularly as applied to space systems, is a multi‐disciplinary field. The analysis, design and implementation of complex (end to end) control systems include aspects of system engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, communications, ground systems and operations – all of which have dedicated ECSS engineering standards and handbooks. This Handbook is not intended to duplicate them. This Handbook focuses on the specific issues involved in control engineering and is intended to be used as a structured set of systematic engineering provisions, referring to the specific standards and handbooks of the discipline where appropriate. For this, and reasons such as the very rapid progress of control component technologies and associated “de facto” standards, this Handbook does not go to the level of describing equipment or interfaces. This Handbook is not intended to replace textbook material on control systems theory or technology, and such material is intentionally avoided. The readers and users of this Handbook are assumed to possess general knowledge of control systems engineering and its applications to space missions.